Le Grand Café – Contemporary Art Centre

Edith Dekyndt
The Black, The White, The Blue
February 15–May 3, 2020

Opening: February 14, 6:30pm

Le Grand Café, Contemporary Art Centre, Saint-Nazaire
Place des Quatre zhorloges
Saint-Nazaire , 44600
France

grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

At Le Grand Café, Edith Dekyndt revisits her installation The Black, The White, The Blue, recently created for the Kunsthaus Hamburg. Her project responds to port operations in Hamburg as in Saint-Nazaire, evoking the international freight trade and in particular the containers of used consumer goods sent from Europe towards the world's most fragile regions. In the exhibition, Edith Dekyndt symbolically assembles this waste into spatial arrangements that make apparent the interrelation of human beings, the material world and the natural elements. Her minimalist and sensitive visual language magnifies the silent energies of the transformative processes at work. The dissolution, alteration and crystallisation of objects and materials establish an atmosphere that conveys both brutality and fragility.

Biography
Born in 1960, lives and works in Brussels (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany)
Recent solo shows:
2019
The Black, The White, The Blue, Finkenwerder Art Prize, Kunsthaus Hamburg
They Shoot Horses, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
The Lariat, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
2018
The Ninth Wave, Beaufort, Monument to King Albert 1st, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
2017
Blind Objects, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
2016
Ombre indigène, Wiels, Brussels

Event
March 29, 3:30pm: Talking with Edith Dekyndt and Florence Meyssonnier, art critic.

The exhibition The Black, The White, The Blue was presented at the Kunsthaus Hamburg (Germany) from June 8 to August 18, 2019.
Thanks to the Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf-Berlin (Germany).

Exhibition curator: Sophie Legrandjacques, director of Le Grand Café – contemporary art centre
Press contact: Hélène Annereau-Barnay annereaubarh [​at​] mairie-saintnazaire.fr